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Airline ‘horse’ left barn - 0 Comments

That antitrust suit the Justice Department filed against the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways seems a few years late. The suit likely is the opening shot in negotiations to make a merger acceptable to the Antitrust Division.

Justice let the mergers of Delta and Northwest and of Continental and United go ahead without challenge. The resulting Delta and United companies had as many or more duplicated routes as a merged American-US Airways would (about 1,000).